Bethany Hamilton's universe revolves around sugar, dogs, and her nephew Liam. But when she plays babysitter slash mother for a while, she meets the young and handsome Blake Greene. Will her world still orbit around sweet crystals, man's best friend, and to only one boy afterwards? More importantly, would she let herself fall in love after all these years?

previously titled: nerds ❝IN WHICH, A BOX OF CANDY HAPPENS TO SPARK THE TURNING POINT OF THE LIVES OF TWO [ extended summary inside ]

Langston Brothers Series Book 2 When murder suspect Cadence Jamison disguises herself as a boy and stows aboard the Heavenly Mistress Captain Curtis Langston may find his two past occasions for rescuing her more than he bargained for. Bitter and Cynical after service in the Confederate Army, Curtis believes himself no more deserving of another’s love than capable of returning it. Content to drift through life free of emotional and therefore romantic complications the once carefree and mischievous rogue may be forever gone. But when Cadence appears in his life Curtis finds himself smiling again, smiling and dreaming and feeling more like himself than he has in five years. Drawn with almost unnatural force to the sweet and innocent goodness Cadence offers, Curtis blunders again and again to resist the pull of what a life with her could be. Can Cadence show this wounded soul how to love again? Or is he doomed to be forever unforgiven, haunted by the ghosts of his past?

"Wanna see me naked?"

Every half century in a small little town hidden in the woods, a beast comes out from the forest to claim his bride on the night of an eclipse. The people of call this phenomenon "the taking". This beast is said to be very dangerous. It roams door to door searching for the woman whose being calls to his animal instincts. He will kill, mutilate and destroy everything in his path until he finds his bride. In the past, the townsmen have tried to hunt the creature and kill him before they can steal one of their marriageable daughters, but the beast does not hunt alone. He has followers among the shadows to make sure his goal is accomplished. Once he finds his bride, he carries her back to the forest where she is never seen or heard from again. Celeste believes this so-called "legend" is just some scary fairytale her grandmother made up to scare her. But was she ever wrong when a pair of moonlit eyes stared straight at her through her bedroom window and entered her room. Next thing she knew, she was being carried out the house and into the woods by a half-naked man who called her his. Who would have thought? Grandma wasn't crazy after all. Young Adult novel. Paranormal/Comedy-Romance @2014

"Aren't you a little too young to be a psychologist?" I eyed him suspiciously. "Aren't you a little too sane to be seeing one?" He countered with an amused smirk. "Touche." Meet Payton Quinn, your average teen who has problems with love like everybody else, but with a Mom who worries maybe just a little too much and ends up sending her to a Love Psychologist. Meet Damon Saunders, Cupid's son. His Dad is punishing for slacking off all his life and of course he get stuck with Payton. Only way he can go back to his carefree lifestyle is if he Payton find her match and get them together by posing as her new psychologist. But what he doesn't know is that matching Payton isn't as easy as he thought... Will Payton give in to Damon and be with who she was meant to be? Or will she deny her fate and destiny and go after who she really loves?

"She's a fine choice son. She'll make a perfect wife," Lorenzo Armani told his oldest son. I knew that she was perfect. That's why I had chosen her. There was something different about this one. She was young and beautiful. Kind and caring. Sweet and gentle. She would be the one that I would make a family and a life with. ************************************ Abigail Morris was a young eighteen year old waitress making her way through college. Living in a run down apartment building and living off of tips, she didn't realize that she was being watched. She didn't believe in love or fairy tales. She had seen how marriages ended abruptly, just as her parents' did. This all changed the day a young, handsome man came into the restaurant at which she worked at. Nicolaus Armani was the oldest son of the well known Mafia leader, Lorenzo Armani. He grew up his whole life groomed to take over the business. At the age of twenty-six, Nicolaus begins to search for his soul mate, something his family believes in. Shortly after that day, he found the one. A beautiful brunette working as a waitress at his Uncle Benny's restaurant. He followed her. He watched her. And in that moment, he knew that she would be his.

*Completed* "I just want to know why." I say as I turn over, trying to find his figure through the dark of my room. "Why what?" He asks. "Why you're being so nice to me." I say quietly, vulnerability seeping into my words. "How we even became friends." He sighs, "I want to know how." I scrunch my brow. "How what?" His response is soft, the opposite of his sarcastic personality. "How you don't see it." ******* Reagan Holt was about as average as a high school student could be. She didn't play any sports, didn't participate in the popular activities, and wasn't the girl all the boys chased after. All except one boy. He wrote her a letter every week. Each letter described something new for him to love about her. Whether it was how beautiful her laugh was or how his heart swelled with every smile she gave, he never failed to write how he felt. So the two should be together, right? That's the way Reagan wants it, but there's just one problem. He signs his letters "Love, Anonymous." Now add an obnoxious, conceited, sex god into the equation and you get a teenage girl confused on who really loves her. The sweet, tender written anonymous lover, or the cocky, ignorant asshole? -REVIEWS- "You create such wonderful characters and I can't wait to see what happens next!" VampireSa5m41993 "Thank you for wonderful dogs and little brothers and eccentrically hormonal best friends!" -Nat-Attack "I am totally hooked on this book!" nbazinet "I love the way the story flows and that you have really roundabout characters. It's as if they're real while I'm reading!" life_is_beautiful115 "Your work is literally art." lemonsun123 "Every time I read this book it just makes me smile." Nicooole97 Cover by: -winterr